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Unit 2: Anti-Indigenous Violence
How has anti-Indigenous violence shaped the settler colonial state? How do we understand the violence of the colonial present? How is colonial/racial violence legally authorized?
View the following cases on RDIC:
The very motive and intent of racialized violence is to protect carefully crafted boundaries, in the physical and social sense. It is a purposive process of policing the line between white/not white, between dominant and subordinate. It stands, then, as both punishment for those who dare to transgress, and those who are considering it. This is particularly significant in Indian country, where the lines of demarcation have a very real physical presence.
Readings:
- Sherene Razack, “’It Happened More than Once’: Freezing Deaths in Saskatchewan.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 26.1 (2014): 51-80.
- Barbara Perry, “There’s just places ya’ don’t wanna go’: the segregating impact of hate crime against Native Americans.” Contemporary Justice Review 12.4 (2009): 401-418.
For additional reading, please see:
- “Carceral Colonialism: Imprisonment in Indian Country: How has settler colonialism shaped the carceral state?” from the University of Minnesota
- The Farmington Report: A Conflict of Cultures. New Mexico Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, 1975.
- Irene Watson, “Aboriginality and the Violence of Colonialism” Borderlands E-Journal
